"It was a warm summer evening, not quite dark, but blue-lit and past the point of shadows. The kids were running through the gardens with empty pickle jars and bare hands chasing fireflies and having middling success.

'It’s ridiculous,' I said to my husband, as we strained to see their pale outlines in the creeping darkness. 'Most of the time you can’t even see where the bugs are, how are you supposed to catch them?'

'You wait until they glow,' he answered. 'You look for the flash of light and try to follow it even after it goes dark. The trick is to stay focused on the light and wait out the dark.'”